Chapter 1117 The identity is seen through

The chief of staff reminded Paul Hauser: "Your Excellency, according to the information I have, there is also the 106th Infantry Division retreating from the direction of Donetsk in the defense zone of the Imperial Division. Please see if you can let them send troops. Participate in the search operation?"

"Chief of staff, what you said is very reasonable." The words of the chief of staff made Paul Hausser shine: "They will be defeated by the Russians at any time, but there are at least a few thousand troops. If there are With their help, I think our chances of finding the Russians are greatly improved."

   "But we don't have the division's contact code." The chief of staff said: "To get help from this unit, you must first report to Marshal Manstein."

  Paul Hauser said: "It's up to me to contact the Marshal."

  He used the high-frequency telephone in the headquarters to dial Manstein's headquarters, and said to the person who answered the phone: "This is Paul Hauser, please let Marshal Manstein answer the phone."

  If someone else called at this time and disturbed the marshal's rest, he would definitely be reprimanded by the person who answered the phone. Hearing Paul Hausser, the person who answered the phone hurriedly said politely: "Your Excellency, please wait a moment, I will get in touch with the Marshal's adjutant immediately."

   "Hello, General Hausser." Another voice came from the receiver soon: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Zepp, the adjutant of the Marshal. Do you have anything to report to His Majesty the Marshal?"

   "Yes, Lieutenant Colonel Zepp." Paul Hauser said: "I have a particularly urgent military situation, and I need to report it to Your Excellency Marshal immediately. This is related to whether our army can capture the Red Army Village and Donetsk."

Lieutenant Colonel Zepp didn't want to disturb Manstein's sleep at this time, but when he heard Paul Hauser say that it was related to whether the Red Army Village and Donetsk could be captured, he didn't dare to neglect, so he came to Arrived at Manstein's bedroom, woke him up from his sleep, and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, Field Marshal, General Hausser has important military information to report to you."

Manstein, who had just woken up from his sleep, was full of displeasure, but since Paul Hausser had an important military report, he could only force himself to sit up and took the microphone from the adjutant's hand: "I It's Manstein."

"Your Excellency, Marshal, I am Paul Hausser." Hearing Manstein's voice, Paul Hausser hurriedly reported to him: "Not long ago, a sad thing happened. The German regiment was suddenly attacked by the Russians, and the regimental headquarters and an infantry battalion were almost completely destroyed."

"What, the regiment headquarters and an infantry battalion were completely destroyed?" Manstein immediately became sober when he heard the news. He said excitedly, "Where were they attacked?" , he gestured to the adjutant, motioning him to fetch the map.

When the map was laid out on the quilt, Manstein quickly found the location mentioned by Paul Hauser, and said with some puzzlement: "Strange, this place is more than 20 kilometers away from the Red Army Village, how could it be attacked by the Russians?" attack?"

"After our analysis, the Russians should have used new rockets to attack the headquarters of the German Regiment." Paul Hauser said, "Now I am preparing to dispatch troops to search that area to eliminate the enemy who sneaked into our army." Russians on the defensive line."

"General Hausser, what you did is right. I also think that a small group of Russian troops may have used that new type of rocket to attack the regiment headquarters of the German Regiment." Manstein stared at the map in front of him. Said: "You should eliminate the emerging Russians as quickly as possible, lest they cause us more trouble."

   "However, Marshal, our troops are too far away from the accident site, and we won't be able to get there in a while." Paul Hauser asked tentatively, "I wonder if you can send troops to help us?"

   "Your troops can't rush there in time, and the troops I can command are farther away." Manstein felt a headache for Paul Hauser's request.

"However, there is a troop in our defense zone." Paul Hauser thought that Manstein deliberately found out the reason because he was unwilling to help him, and reminded him: "You can order them to come and assist us search."

   "Is there any troops operating in your defense zone?" Manstein asked a little puzzled: "General Hausser, which troops are you talking about? Why do I have no memory at all?"

"Your Excellency, Marshal, have you forgotten?" The more Hausser heard, the more he felt that Manstein was perfunctory, and he said quickly: "It is the 106th Infantry Division that was defeated from Donetsk, and they are now in our army. In the zone."

  Manstein said in a daze: "Hell, how did the 106th Infantry Division enter your defense zone?"

   "It may be that they were worried about being chased by the Russians, so they chose to move closer to us. The Russians did not dare to act rashly." Hauser said smartly: "Now, they can just be used."

"General Hausser, I don't know where you heard such wrong news." Manstein stared at the position of the 106th Infantry Division, which was hundreds of kilometers away from the defense zone of the Imperial Division, unless it was With wings inserted, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to reach the defense zone of the Imperial Division in such a short period of time: "The 106th Infantry Division is now a hundred kilometers west of you. You may think other troops are them."

"Other troops, where are the other troops in our defense zone?" Hausser was confused by Manstein's words: "Marshal, are you really sure that the 106th Infantry Division is not in our defense zone? "

"I am absolutely sure, General Hausser." Manstein said affirmatively: "Since they failed to attack Donetsk, I ordered them to retreat towards Zaporozhye. Unless the division commander's nerves appeared Otherwise, he would never have walked hundreds of kilometers north to enter your defense zone."

"Since the 106th Infantry Division is not in our defense zone," Hauser said in a daze, "then where did the troops we see come from?" After a while, he thought of something. A terrible possibility, "No, is it the Russians impersonating?"

"It's entirely possible." Manstein nodded and said, "You know, the enemy you are going to deal with is Sokov, the most difficult Russian among the Russians. He likes to have his troops disguised as Our army. He has caused us a lot of losses with this shady trick. General Hausser, I think he used the same method this time to sneak into your defense zone. Your original plan may be To make adjustments, it is best to call up both the Skeleton Division and the Banner Guard Division to encircle and suppress him."

  Seeing that Manstein attached so much importance to a Russian, Hausser said casually: "He is just a Russian colonel. What can he do? Any division under my command can inflict heavy damage on him."

"General Hausser, your information is out of date." Manstein said to Hausser: "Not long ago, he was just promoted to major general. And according to the information we intercepted, last time you were besieging Rebar On the eve of the department's headquarters, the reason why it was attacked unexpectedly was because of his idea."

The thought of being kicked out of Valkyrie by the Soviet army made Hausser's teeth itch with anger. At this moment, he learned that the action that made him embarrassed was the **** Russian colonel. No, it was the Russian general who was behind the plan. Searle couldn't help the blood rushing to his head: "Marshal, please rest assured, no matter how famous Major General Sokov was before, since he has entered my defense zone, I will never let him leave easily."

   "When you need help, just call me." Before hanging up the phone, Manstein finally said politely: "I will try my best to provide you with support."

After Hausser put down the phone, he said to the chief of staff standing aside: "Chief of staff, immediately inform the three division commanders that there may be a Russian army pretending to be our army and sneaking into our army's defense zone. Let them be more vigilant, so as not to The tragedy of the Reichstag has happened again."

   "Understood, General Hausser." The chief of staff quickly replied: "I will call the three division commanders immediately and convey your meaning to them."

  Sokov didn't know his identity, it had already been exposed, and he was still ordering the troops to advance to Igyum in the northwest according to the original plan. According to his idea, if possible, take the city and hand it over to Golikov's troops. This is equivalent to driving a wedge into the German defense line and making their defense line fragmented.

  However, at dawn, dense gunfire suddenly came from ahead. Sokov stood upright on the armored vehicle, raised his binoculars and looked into the distance. However, due to the occlusion of the forest, he could only see billowing gunpowder smoke and hear the sound of dense gunfire.

   "Come here!" Sokov put down the binoculars and shouted down, and soon a reconnaissance staff officer ran over, straightened up and asked, "Comrade commander, what instructions do you have?"

   "Go and find out what's going on with the sound of guns and guns ahead, understand?"

   "Understood, Comrade Commander." The reconnaissance staff officer agreed, turned around and got on a three-wheeled motorcycle, and rushed towards the direction of the sound of gunfire.

  But before the reconnaissance staff came back, the operator had already handed over the telegram from Papchenko to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, this is a telegram from Colonel Papchenko."

Sokov received the telegram, and after seeing the content clearly, he couldn't help frowning: "It's strange, Colonel Papchenko said that when their vanguard was approaching the German position, the enemy suddenly opened fire on them, and even interrogated them." Nothing, what's going on here?"

  Sidorin took the telegram, read it twice carefully, and said to Sokov: "Comrade commander, do you think the whereabouts of our army have been exposed?"

   "Exposed?" Sokov asked back with some astonishment: "Comrade Chief of Staff, why do you think so?"

"Comrade commander, this is how I think about it." Sidolin explained to Sukov: "A few hours ago, our army attacked a regiment headquarters of the German army and caused a lot of trouble. If I were the enemy If so, I will definitely send someone to search nearby. Once I know that there is an army of tens of thousands of people active in my defense zone, I will definitely ask the other party to help search. But if you want to contact and don’t have the other party’s contact code, then what What should I do? Naturally, I would report to my superiors and ask them to let the troops in their defense zone assist them in continuing to search for the sabotaging Russians.

  But as soon as they contacted their superiors, they would find that the number of this tens of thousands of troops could not be found. In this way, even if the Germans are stupid, they will understand what is going on. If you find that the enemy has entered your defense zone, the best way is to open fire immediately when you see unfamiliar troops appearing. If there is a misunderstanding with the friendly army, then the friendly army will naturally find a way to contact; but if the attacked army does not respond, it can be confirmed that the enemy is attacking, and then you can call more troops to come to reinforce yourself up. "

"Comrade Chief of Staff, what you said is very reasonable." After hearing Sidolin's analysis, Sokov felt that what the other party said was very close to the truth. After nodding his head in affirmation, he continued to ask: "Then what do you say?" , what should we do next?"

"Continuing to capture Ijum is obviously unrealistic." Sidolin said to Sokov: "We might as well just toss around in the defense zone of the three SS divisions of the German army. Wait until they consume a lot of their vitality. After that, it’s not too late to return to the Red Army Village.”

"It seems that this is the only option now." Sokov quickly made a decision. He took out the map and asked Sidolin: "Except for the Imperial Division, where are the Skeleton Division and the Banner Guard Division now?" Location?"

"The Skeleton Division is here, and the Banner Guard Division is here." After Sidolin easily pointed out where the two German divisions were stationed, he asked Sokov for instructions: "Comrade Commander, do you think we are acting in unison? Or are we going to disperse the operations in regiments?"

   "Let's act in a unified manner." Sokov felt that scattered operations would cause the German army to lose sight of one another, but at the same time it would weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops. Once they were encircled, even if they wanted to break out, it might be difficult to succeed. He said to Sidolin: "We divided the troops into three echelons. After choosing the target, we launched successive attacks on the German army. Now the enemy's forces are scattered. I believe that no army can resist our repeated attacks. attack."

   "The 122nd regiment ahead is exchanging fire with the enemy who has seen through their identities," Sidolin reminded Sokov: "Do you need to send troops to support them?"

"We still don't know what kind of troops the enemy has deployed." Sokov said: "If the second echelon is deployed too early, then there will be a shortage of troops in the later stage. I think it is better to use the new rockets. Let the attacking force provide fire support."

  (end of this chapter)